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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. 0. 123,064) DEC 198

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Noriega takes singles, shares doubles ti_!!e USD players~1 the singles an'1h:loables titles yesterday in the San Diego All-College Tennis Tour- nament at USD. Top-seeded Jose Luis Noriega beat teammate Mark Farren in the sin- gles final 6-3, 6-4. In the doubles final, top-seeded Noriega and Dave Stewart defeated Joe McDonough and Woody Yocum of San Diego State 6-3, 6- l. The victo- ry marked the third time in four years that Stewart was a part of the winning doubles team, -----~--~--L

/ HOLIDA y HAPPENINGS: Visit Ensenada for a Chri~tmas shoppi~g adventure sponsored by the Citizen Diplomacy of San Diego. ~us~ ~11! leave at 9a.m. Saturday from First United Methodist Church m ~ion Valley and will return by 7 p.m. The $30 ~ee includes transportation and luncheon. For information and reservations, call 456-80.49 by Wednes- day, ... Just in time for the holidays:-- ado~t~ble pets will be avmlable at the Lumberyard Shopping Center mEnc1mtas from 11 a.m. t? 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For inform~tion, ~all 236-4255.... The Friends_of the Santee Library will have their ~hristmas party ~rom ~:30 to 8.30 p.m. tomorrow at the library. A white elephan! auct1~n will be he~. For information call 448-1863. ., . A community choir concert will present "A Festi~al of Lessons and Carols" at 8 pm. Saturday at USD's Founders Chapel. For information, call 260-4600 ext. 4468. ... ~n Diego Mandolin Orchestra will present a Christmas program from l to 3 p.m. Saturday at Grossmont Center. F?r information, call 466-5421: ... Marketing, advertising and public relations communicators are mv1ted to a holiday mixer from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.. tomorrow .at Emb~ssy Suites Hotel, 4550 La Jolla Village Drive. Cost 1s $20. ~or mfo~mation, call 223-2355. Members of the San Diego County Medical Society are invited to celebrate the holidays at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Museum of San Diego History in Balboa Park. Cost is $5. For information, call 565- 8888. "J '( '5"

Voluhteers:

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Balboa Park museums and galler- ies," Brennan said. "Justice students can volunteer in the courts or in juvenile matter For health related students there are endless opportunities for community service," she said. It was SDSU students who recently rushed to help the San Diego Hospice when an emergency mailing had to be out in a single day. Volunteers persuaded a group of San Diegans to turn over their state tax rebates to buy paint to rede- corate a school gymnasium, Students work with foster children in a big brother and big sister rela- tionship; they help at the campus child-care center Fraternity members, often the ob- ject of heavy criticJSm, are frequent- ly m the front ranks of volunteers, network leaders said. "We work with the the United Way and many other established agencies. We are not trying to reinvent the wheel and look for new areas of need; there's already plenty of identi- fied need out there," said Kim Jack- son, a speech major. ow the •center is developing a computer data base that will show volunteer opportumties not only by type of need, but by geographical area and by accessibility by bus. To Twombly and Vasconcellos, the center is more than a move to get students to volunteer. "We are trying to establish a greater societal sense that volunteer- ism is a moral obligation in any so- phisticated society," Twombly said. "It's also a way of breaking down some of the traditional isolationism of university campuses and of taking the classroom into the real world," he said. "We're not surprised by the results at places like SDSU. In our prelimi- nary surveys we got the feeling there was a huge pool of willingness on the campuses, but nobody had every said, 'It's OK, the gates are open, go out and do it.' "Now the gates are open, and once organized, we believe they will be flood gates," Twombly said. ·

"There ts a common public belief that today' students are a 'me gen- eration,' unwilling to pend time helpmg other . We found that to be totally untrue. We found a huge pool of willing students but little in the way of organization to direct their w1llmgn ," he said. The original Vasconcellos bill would have made voluntary service mandatory as a condition of gradua- tion But Jegi lators argued against it saying voluntary service could not be mandated. In tead, they passed a bill forming the "Human Corps,'' which strongly encourages ludent community er- v, "with th ultimate goal of 100 percent part1c1pat1on. · The legisla- ture proposed $70,000 for UC to de- velop programs and $170,000 for CSU, but when Gov. George Deuk- m j1an signed the bill he excluded funding "That slowed the effort down a bit, but 1I is llll gomg ahead well, and we are delighted with what is hap- penmg at c mpuses such as SDSU and l'C Berkeley," Twombly said. At SDSU, Emond led the student council in an analysis of potential community service efforts available on campus. That was followed by de- velopment of the Community Service Network to coordinate them. Concurrently, the state legislation ordered task forces formed on each UC and CSU campus to develop pro- gram· that would "substantially ex- · pand" student volunteer work by June 30, 1993, ultimately involving all students. •·we see the two efforts ultimately merging, but we wanted lo get ours up and going as soon as possible," said Barbara Peterson, a junior ma- joring in political science who has volunteered to be on the staff of the network. Up and running means a staff of seven student leaders with 28 student helpers who have already developed files on more than 1,500 places where volunteer services are n':tded.

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SDSU student Sean Verner, right, tutors 13- year-old Ruban Madrigal at Wilson Middle

School. Verner is one of a growing legion of students doing volunteer work.

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Brian Westlund, a finance senior, has so far written to 50 local business leaders seeking financial help and has succeeded in obtaining a few grants. "I'm looking for two kinds of finan- cial help: small grants to meet im- mediate printing and other operating costs, and ongoing grants covering a number of years to give us a continu- ous funding base," he said. Selena Brennan, another political science juruo , i Ir ady doing a fol- low-up to ma e u volunteers and recipients a1 tappy" th each other. "We realize t iat m kinds of vol- unteer work is J st not suited to stu- dents, and c d n t ~ant t waste any time or turn off any- ellger u- dents," she said. Faculty members also are etting involved. Instead of requiring written pa- pers on community work, faculty members are now offering up to three study units for community ser-

vice, and sending the students through the network. The option makes it a combination of working for credit and volunteering services. Sean Verner, an aerospace engi- neering major and Sigma Pi frater- mty member, is in his second year of volunteering as a tutor at the Wilson \fiddle School. "I'm really en1oymg this. I taught math last year. Now I'm helping with reading," he said. In another corner of the Wilson school library, Carla Becker was busy teaching fractions to seventh- grader Shavonda Mitchell. "I've learned a lot from doing this community work. I'm an education major and I believe anything that can be done to increase student com- munity work is an excellent idea," she said. For Shavonda it was a head start over the rest of the class in under- standing fractions. "I'm sure a lot of my friends would

Jike thJS kind of individual help from a college student, she said. Leslie Robbins, a journalism and advertising major on the network staff, has done class work on commu- nity service both ways - by writing papers and volunteering. "Two years ago I wrote a paper. It was all very theoretical and didn't have too much meaning for me. But by going out into the community and keeping a journal of my experiences, I learned a lot more about every- thing from voluntary service to man- agement and people skills," she said. Now, entire academic depart- ments such as health, the arts and criminal justice are spotlighting community service as part of the curriculum, and the network 1s tailoring service openings to individ- ual student needs and wishes. "For music and art students we have volunteer jobs as ushers at the San Diego Symphony concerts or at the School of Performing Arts and in

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J Rohr on threshold of unprecedented boom, Todd reports ~1 ~ . . By Itichard pauldrng though, as they were told of the pre- and delivery of the company's core generation of aerospace products. about an average price for the indus- Tribune Financial Writer dieted and unprecedented boom in products; nacelles, thrust reversers Despite living in a merger-mad try. The company's book value at its Harry Todd, chairman, president commercial airliner production over and pylons. A most significant in- world, and being a plump, apparent- July 31 fiscal year end was $21.34. and chief executive officer of aero- the next 15 years and of Rohr's posi- crease, he said, was a nearly 90 per- ly well-managed company on the Under questioning by space subcontractor Rohr Industries tion to take advantage of that cent increase in autoclave capacity, verge of the greatest boom in its 48- attorney/corporate gadfly Louis Gil- Inc., at the company's annual meet- growth. the pressure cookers used to cure year history, Todd said Rohr has bert, who said he represented 500 ing Saturday kept shareholders in the To help meet this expected de- bonding adhesives. "Our lack of au o- received no official takeover offers. shares, Todd, 66, revealed the com~a- dark, literally. mand, Dave Ruggles, senior vice clave capacity was previously a sig- The company's largest single share- ny m the past year had changed its The lights were kept dimmed or president of finance, reported the nificant manufacturing constraint," holder, Riech & Tang Inc. of New bylaws to move his retirement age to off entirely during the two-hour company bas invested $76 million in he said: York City with 11.7 percent, was not 72 plus the remaining time to the meeting to better illuminate a con- new property, plant and equipment Bob Goldsmith, senior vice presi- represented at the meeting. At least next annual meeting. tinuing slide program on a large and increase inventories by $160 mil- dent of business operations, showed no shareholder identify themselves Gilbert also made his annual re- screen and dramatize the spotlighted lion. how Rohr is expanding its customer- as a Riech & Tang representative quest that the company seek others lectern occupied by Todd and three John Sanford, senior vice president support organization through spare when called upon to do so. to occupy some of the positions held of the company's top officers as they of production operations, told share- parts and repair and modification. The stock closed on the New York by Todd, particularly the presidency, presented the future of the compa~y. ~olders the companr has reorganized He said the company is also working Stock Exch~nge Friday at 26½, down although Gilbert pr faced his request Shareholders did not complam, itself to handle design, manufacture on research for products for the next ½i. Todd said he felt that represented Please see ROHR: -20, Col. 3 • nearly doubled its sales m the past five years. .

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Dividends would be considered, Todd -said, when the demands _of Rohr's growth cycle are not so m- tense as they are now. One shareholder suggest caught Todd's fancy. It was that if the annu- al meeting were again held at the University of San Di~o, students be invited to attend. "I like that " Todd brightened. "Let them see tbe'real corporate world in action rather than just books."